Family childcare in Wales

[savehalloween]

In our cryptic roadmap, it states this about friends and family once we are in the red phase:

Red
• Seeing one person from outside your household to provide or receive care or support whilst maintaining appropriate social distancing.

Would it be fair to presume that means a contactless drop off to my healthy / under 70 / not vulnerable / following guidelines parents would be ok?

CV meant I lost all my work but it's starting to pick up a bit and my mum is desperate to get her childcare days back.

I hope they will clarify when we move into the red zone but it seems that they want to avoid directly saying some things are ok to do. Lots of "use your common sense" which is very open to interpretation.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on this?

Or if you're from outside of Wales, but also have this kind of arrangement, what your guidelines say on this.

I'm not a key worker or essential, but my work is impossible to do with a 2 year old around and I'm really struggling with working in the evenings and weekends. It's not sustainable.

I'm in Wales OP, throughout this pandemic I've been using my mother for support for childcare/respite. I can't loose any of my income as a lone parent. Starving and getting in to debt would stress me out far far more than a minimal risk of a disease to two perfectly healthy adults and a 5 year old.

The WAG are so vague it's unbelievable. Everything was "if possible" "do what's best for you" sort of thing 🤷🏻‍♀️

Totally agree, I wish they would stop treating us like children and just spell it out.

Thank you for posting, what you have done sounds entirely sensible.

I've already been stung massively by having a baby during the 3 year period the self employed help is averaged from. I cant afford to turn down work or my business will never recover from this.

That's the thing, a pandemic might last another 18months, I have the next 18 years, to clothe, feed and keep a roof over my child's head.

I'm not going to get a Social Services referral for breaching lockdown, I will if we haven't got a home, food and money!

That's a very good point!